I used Buckeye's prep thread here for my go to first subzero ss ph mb prep guide , he did a very nice job on this thread . Since then I found some personal tweaks to my prep work that work really well . One area I want to cover is on Intel platforms , there mb sockets are very very delicate compared to AMD . What I do with them now is I do not use the socket holddown hardware that locks the cpu in the socket . Reason is the holdown really compresses the erraser to much and I found it can get erraer in the socket area which is time consumming at best to clean . Anyone else that goes without the Intel socket cpu holdown please check in with your thoughts . I have a few other tweaks to my prep as well that later I will add . Thanks again Buckeye for your detailed prep thread , it helped me on my first go around with subzero !